overclocking and you

[Major Liability]

Not sure if it really counts as overclocking, but I did turn my X800 Pro into and X800 XT back in the day using this technique:

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/100

[[Mad_Murdock]]

Originally Posted by tixhal

i have a scythe ninja 3 , it's pretty cheap, weighs ~1kg, barely fits into my case and has manual fan control which i run at the lowest value all the time (300rpm iirc). max temps ~55°C while gaming. increasing the fan speed could lower the value a lot, but i like to only be able to hear the song of the graphics card and the soothing crackle of the raid .

My my, look at that its ALMOST as ugly as the Noctua

I have the Noctua linked up to the mobo fan controller so its automatic, but I don't mind the noise, what little of it there is. My old build had half as many fans in it and it was loud as hell, this one is running about 7 fans total and I can barely hear it.

Originally Posted by tixhal

before that i had the thermaltake ruby orb, which worked well with the cpu's of that era.

I had something like that! It wasn't a thermaltake, but looked almost the same.

[Colt .45 killer]

le bemp.

Sandia cooler ( google it ) looks very interesting, especially for OCing. supposedly giving 10X better cooling than your average aftermarket huge brick cooler ( i think the comparison was towards a dynatron g950 ).

[tixhal]

Originally Posted by Colt .45 killer

le bemp.

Sandia cooler ( google it ) looks very interesting, especially for OCing. supposedly giving 10X better cooling than your average aftermarket huge brick cooler ( i think the comparison was towards a dynatron g950 ).

great find! kind of generates a small tornado above the heatsink and pushes the air out on the sides, gonna keep an eye open for those. i wonder when the first ones appear on the market, and how expensive they will be

Sandia Cooler - YouTube

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Originally Posted by tixhal

great find! kind of generates a small tornado above the heatsink and pushes the air out on the sides, gonna keep an eye open for those. i wonder when the first ones appear on the market, and how expensive they will be

Sandia Cooler - YouTube

You can be assured they will come out right after you do a new build and settle on alternate cooling solution.

[Oldih]

I'm curious to see how it works in practice when mounted on a motherboard with the whole shebang.

[Colt .45 killer]

it works fine on its side, they've got some video of that somewhere.

As to cost, would you really care? a good watercooling setup is over 200$, the average brick cooler is 50-100$. if its anywhere in the price range of the average brick cooler and cools as well as they claim, they could literally take that market by storm. ( I think they are licensing it and selling it isntead of making it themselves though so you might see that type of cooler from a few makers ).

When it comes to OCing now you have two limits, thermal and power. IMO Thermal is what gets hit first more often, especially as chips get smaller and have to dissipate temps out of less surface space so better cooling is much more important.

[Oldih]

Originally Posted by Colt .45 killer

it works fine on its side, they've got some video of that somewhere.

What I mostly meant is how it works in consideration with other things. It sounds interesting, but when you have the case, airflow etc etc etc to consider, well I'd be curious to see how it works. I considered it obvious they probably have figured out the mounting already.

[Colt .45 killer]

you'd be surprised at how overly skeptical / ignorant some people are. I spent some time googling around looking for info on this and how soon we might see a commercial version. Most people were passing it off because of the loud motor, or the fact they did not see it working on its side, or because they don't know the difference between a fan and an impeller. ( Loud motor is even explained in the video .. sheesh.. ).

[Flogger23m]

I was thinking of trying it, though I doubt my motherboard will support it well. And I prefer stability over speed. Computers have enough issues as they are.

[tixhal]

Originally Posted by Flogger23m

I was thinking of trying it, though I doubt my motherboard will support it well. And I prefer stability over speed. Computers have enough issues as they are.

it depends on the hardware. a cpu with open multiplier won't stress your mainboard much. if you have to raise busclocks or voltages, that's another story. i've seen new hardware die without overclocking after a few weeks. i've seen an overclocked duron with a damaged edge run for over a decade without slowing down. the key to stable overclocking is looking for examples on the net, and comparing their results to yours (especially temperatures, when to raise the voltage etc.). you have to do some research, but there's lots of good examples out there.

[HeadClot]

I plan on overclocking - So I will vote at a later date.

[tixhal]

atm i'm trying to slowly bump the core clock of my gpu to 1ghz, just ran a three minute furmark@985mhz which brought the temperature to 94°c. not a desirable value for everyday use, but usually it stays at 85° while gaming which is only slightly higher than the max temp at stock speed (the fan has to work harder though, but remains pretty quiet). i'm doing this carefully, raising the clock +5mhz every once in a while, playing several gpu-intensive games and checking the temps.
i wonder if i can get to 1ghz without raising the voltage, i've been reading several reviews where the threshold varies from 980-1010mhz. maybe i'm lucky and can achieve my goal without using third party tools like afterburner and such.
once i'm finished with the core clock i'll check if raising the memory clock is beneficial, a few more mhz should be easily possible, but i'm sceptical if it's worth the effort.
i can definitely recommend the asus direct cu solution, i've been reading lots of praise about it for several cards and my personal experience is very pleasant.